A Complete Button Set of Different Types of People

One of the fine Coach House titles launching this April is Gabe Foreman's debut poetry collection, A Complete Encyclopedia of Different Types of People. This encyclopedia is not your average reference book. It turns a series of sociological case studies of various stereotypes into a functional encyclopedia that doubles as a unique, achingly funny, always engaging collection of poems. 'Bad Apples,' 'Day Traders,' 'Entomologists' and 'Perverts' are all dutifully catalogued in a series of luminously strange, compellingly original poems.

The book even has its own series of fashionable pins. Representing seven of the poems and 'types,' these buttons are the perfect accessory for those who self-identify as 'optimists,' 'doormats' or 'late bloomers.' Throughout the month of April, in celebration of National Poetry Month, if you order A Complete Encyclopedia of Different Types of People from the Coach House website, you will also receive the full set of seven pins absolutely free! You get a pin, you get a pin, everybody gets a pin! (Everybody who orders that book, that is.

Since our founding in 1965, Coach House has been committed to printing and publishing innovative poetry of the highest quality. With that mandate in mind, we want to make sure we're doing all that we can to share our poets' work with you!

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